I'm not going to deny that UMVC3 is not doing as well as last year, or it's launch year, BUT it does have allot of new young people.
Coach Steve,Paradigm, Angelic, Full Schedule, Unknown, Apologyman, Cloud 805, Flux, That huge Texas marvel group. There's some sections of NA where Marvel is a whole sub culture like in Texas/ New Mexico/ Seattle etc
Also what weeklies are you talking about people not going to? All I can think of is Battle Circuit which was never a big Marvel venue to begin with. Everyone there goes to the House of Chaos now which has larger entrants then BC.
The other Big Marvel Weeklies happen on the West Coast through the Runback which hasn't stopped, And Champs FGTV house is the number one fighting channel for views on Twitch.
Even Justin tweeted after he won that he "Saved marvel" because it is indeed a dying game
That's not exactly what happened. When Umvc3 came out people said SF4 was dieing, and when a Ultra came out all the sudden Marvel is dieing. That's just how it is with the FGC.
Everyone remembers the famous "Whens Mahvel?" tag line. Alll the sudden Ultra comes out, and the tag line is Marvel is dead so of course Justin is going to tweet he saved Marvel haha.
The only time people get really hype is when Justin or an international player is challening somebody lol
They had 3k people watching the house of chaos at 4am in the morning last week because Flux and Coach steve did a FT25 money match. Trust me people watch Marvel.
Yipes got out of bed to commentate it, and brought Chris Matrix. Fun shit